2manynotes
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Hunkered down, waiting out the plague, decided to teach myself digital music composition. I'm finding FL Studio to be a bit of a challenge. This looks like the right place to get questions answered. Nice to meet you all.
You might not think that when we all turn up !Nice to meet you all.
Hunkered down, waiting out the plague, decided to teach myself digital music composition. I'm finding FL Studio to be a bit of a challenge. This looks like the right place to get questions answered. Nice to meet you all.
A warm welcome from me as well Two. FL Studio is a DAW of a type I call "Cut and Shunt" i.e. you move chunks of music about to make tracks. Had it, never did Jack with it!
Most recording software is of the 'linear' type which emulates to an extent how you would record using a tape machine. There is even a 'mixer' in there that looks and works much as a hardware mixer would. Do you have any experience of tape recording? If so check out Audacity (download safely from Ninite)
Much more sophisticated is Cockos' Reaper and is free until you give into the nag and stump up the very reasonable $60.
Dave.
Good name for a depressing sounding epic instrumental......this biological carnival of doom
Thanks for the replies. Fl Studio is proving to be not the medium for improvisation I figerd it was. I'm looking at a couple of other trial versions of digital tracking that I can jam along with or noodle for many bars without the constraints of it needing to be a "pattern" - the "linear" stuff you mention. You'll see me popping up from time to time bleating for help with a snag. Right now I'm noodling with Mixcraft 8 and coming up with the usual nosebleed glitchery. Best to all of you for safety and hope for a quick end to this biological carnival of doom.